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What is the question?

steve simmons

Well... I do not purport to have the ability to read minds, but I think it's fairly easy to see that Wayne was wondering if maybe you could persuade the fine folks at Ilford to attend the first Annual APUG Conference in Toronto. It's a good idea! I think APUG represents a large group of analog photo supporters worldwide. It seems like a natural connection to me!

Wasn't "Schindler's List" and/ or ... the one with the Polish-Jewish piano player ..
I think it was called "The Pianist" both done on black and white film? I could be 'way wrong ... but wasn't "Saving Private Ryan" on B&W as well ..?

Nope, standard color stocks. And digitally remastered, just like "The Man Who Wasn't There"

The opening battle of "Saving Private Ryan" was shot on old cameras with period lenses, and their coatings were stripped off to give a more authentic appearance.

Er, I think that "The Man Who Wasn't There" was all film - the interpos (or an interneg?) was on sound stock to correct for the gamma mismatch between the colour neg and the B&W print as I recall. I'll check my back issues of the AC and confirm.

It's hard to tell from these, however -- though this film came after the digital neg color work on O Brother Where Art Thou? and there are definitely digital elements throughout, both obvious (the flying-saucer hubcaps) and less so (wire removals etc)

B&W Films

On the future of B&W film, or on the future of B&W Photography? Not sure how much overlap there really is (really -- almost no one has shot B&W movies on B&W film for years, for example)

Just this weekend, I re-watched "Schindler's List" shot on a filmstock you say no one has shot for years. The tones of this film are fantastic, and the detail, leads me to believe it was shot with Zeiss lenses.

Also, just recently on satellite I saw "Ed Wood", different look altogether tonality-wise (can't stand Tim Burton), but again, another modern film shot purposefully in B&W.

Even "A Hard Day's Night" is listed as one of the greatest films ever made both artistically, & historically. You can include this one too, (if you think of 1964 as "for years").